It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.